If both right and left are becoming more puritanical, what is the kind of political movement pro-Christmas? Is that the libertarian movement? I suppose it would be a libertarian... There's something in the clown king leader, someone like Boris Johnson, which people actually find quite attractive. And there's something in us that actually likes that, you know. That might be the Elon Musk's of the world as well. The clown capitalist. Yeah.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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